Quotes By Richard Bach

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

True love stories never have endings.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

The simplest things are often the truest.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.